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Have you ever received a photo in an email and wanted to save it to your iPhone or iPad? Family and friends may regularly send pictures to you. Perhaps you were browsing the Internet and found an interesting photo you wanted to keep. There is an easy way to save photos from emails or the […]
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The majority of cell phone providers no longer offer unlimited data plans for the iPhone. The user must select a data plan that caps the amount of cellular data you can use in a billing cycle. Exceeding the limit of the data plan can get expensive. When your iPhone is connected to a Wi-Fi network,
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The Messages app in does not display timestamps for each individual text message or iMessage. It simply provides a timestamp at the beginning of each new conversation. If you ever need to go back and see when a particular message was sent or received, there is a simple way to see the timestamp of a
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Apple provides the Safari app for browsing the Internet. For the most part, it is convenient and easy to use. Most of the browsing controls are easy to understand, but there are a few hidden features to make browsing a little easier. One such feature is the ability to view your browsing history. View
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If you have multiple iOS devices such as an iPhone and an iPad, syncing Safari tabs allows you to see websites you visited on one device while using the other device. For example, say you were reading a very interesting article on the iAnswerGuy website while using your iPhone. Unfortunately, you were interrupted before you
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While surfing the web, you may occasionally find PDF files that catches your interest. These can be things such as user manuals, restaurant menus, or instructional forms. It may be helpful to save these PDFs for later reading. Rather than bookmarking the website, you can simply save the PDFs in iBooks. While in Safari, open
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When you setup your iPhone or iPad, you were asked to enter a passcode during the setup process. When the setup was complete, your device now requires this code to be entered every time you use it. Having a code on your device does provide some added security that will keep someone from using your
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The iPhone Messages app will display text messages with either a green background or a blue background. These colors are not random, and are actually telling you whether the message was sent as a regular SMS text message or an iMessage.
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I published an article describing the difference between a text message and an iMessage, which has been quite popular and generated some additional questions related to iMessage. This article will address a common question regarding why an iMessage will sometimes be sent as a regular SMS text message. The Messages app on the iPhone is
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I published an article describing the difference between a text message and an iMessage, which has been quite popular and has generated some additional questions related to iMessage. This article will address one of the common issues, in which iMessages are being sent to multiple devices or to other family members. The iMessages are related
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